Dripstone
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Aggtelek and Slovak Karst | ||
Altamira Cave | In El Castillo (and probably others) | |
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites | Naracoorte Caves has a great variety | |
Budapest | Gellert Hill Cave | |
Carlsbad Caverns | ||
Causses and Cévennes | Aven Armand | |
Champagne | The caves of the Montebello Castle feature soda straws, fine stalactite formed from a natural tube of calcite concretion (Nomination file, Annexe 2, Inventaire du patrimoine industriel du champagne, p. 47) | |
Cilento and Vallo di Diano | Grotte di Castelcivita | |
Costiera Amalfitana | Esmerald Cave | |
Desembarco del Granma National Park | the pagan Idolo del Agua, carved 1,000 years ago from a stalagmite (UNEP-WCMC) | |
Evaporitic Karst and Caves | "speleothems" (AB ev) | |
Fossil Hominid Sites | Taung Skull Fossil Site (nom file) | |
Greater Blue Mountains | Jenolan Caves | |
Gunung Mulu | Lang Cave, Clear Water Cave and Wind Cave | |
Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago | Thien Cung grotto | |
Hallstatt-Dachstein | Koppenbr?ller-Cave | |
Jeju | All five Lava tube caves include stalactites (a type of dripstone). Yongcheon Cave "Originating from of overlying carbonate sand dunes, including stalactites, stalagmites, pillars, cave corals, cave pearls, curtains, flowstone, and rimstone pools." - AB Document | |
Mammoth Cave | ||
Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River | ||
Rock Islands | ||
Skocjan Caves | ||
Tasmanian Wilderness | Mole Creek Karst National Park - King Solomons Cave & Marakoopa Cave | |
Viñales Valley | In Caverna de Santo Tomás | |
Wulingyuan | Yellow Dragon Cave |
Suggestions?
Do you know of another WHS we could connect to Dripstone?
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